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Backyard and Beyond
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond 
The yuck factor of leeches still churns strong in my mind. These turtles need to find a species of bird to pluck the leeches as they bask in the sun. This mutualism, both benefit, should have evolved naturally like cleaner wrasses and some fish.